The Agency s system of maternal death surveillance was reinforced to help reduce maternal mortality from preventable causes.

Table 12 Maternal mortality, by primary cause of death, 2002

The Federal Government supports the establishment of Maternal Death Committees all over the country as a means to improve the records of maternal deaths.

In 2003, pursuant to a commitment made in connection to maternal death, the Federal Government published an Administrative Ruling that turns the notification of maternal deaths compulsory and reactivated the National Commission on Maternal Mortality.

Nowadays, there are 26 State Committees on Maternal Death working, while in 1998 only 14 were active.

224. The same study found that the causes of maternal death related either to miscarriage or to delivery.

The network has successfully helped reduce maternal death in 11 rural communities in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

In connection with the rise in maternal mortality in 1994 and 1995 it should be added that a new death certificate was introduced in 1993 which identifies maternal deaths more clearly.

The maternal death rate before the war in 1990 was 21.4 deaths per 100,000 residents in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

At least in two of them there are errors and incomplete data ( Maternal mortality rate and Tuberculosis death rate ).

In 1994 the primary cause of maternal death was toxaemia, followed by abortion, haemorrhages, labour or childbirth complications, etc.

The data on maternal death rate after the war are not reliable, but according to available data, where the cause of death is determined, the maternity death rate in 2000 was 8 per cent per 100,000.

Every maternal death has to be reported to a committee for a review of underlying causes and methods of future prevention.

Dr. Rosenfield said that the current maternal and neonatal death rates in poor countries were prevalent in Western countries a century ago.

Four state and regional seminars were organized with technical and financial support from the Federal Government, in order to train health professionals to study maternal deaths and or to create Regional and Municipal Committees on Maternal Death.

Another significant intervention in the area of gender has been the support to the Regional Prevention of Maternal Mortality network, headquartered in Ghana, which serves both as a repository and a provider of knowledge and experience in preventing maternal mortality based on an effective methodology for measuring and reducing maternal death.

The maternal death rate is an important indicator of the level of health and social care provided to mothers during and after pregnancy.

The single most common direct cause of death accounting for a quarter of all maternal deaths is obstetric haemorrhage, generally occurring post partum.

The presenter of the theme Child and maternal health observed that the present maternal and neonatal death rates in poor countries were prevalent a century ago in Western countries, where they had then been reduced because of determined government policies.

As in the case of child mortality most cases of maternal death (74 per cent) are directly associated with pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium.

The absolute risk of maternal death during pregnancy and the puerperium remains very small, being 1 in 8,423 confinements in the triennium 1997 1999.

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As regards maternal mortality in Mexico, the fourth cause of death is complications arising from abortion this category includes not only induced abortions but all types, including spontaneous abortions.

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cent of all maternal deaths.

As a result, maternal and child mortality rates were extremely high in the region, with South Asia recording the highest maternal mortality rate of 650 maternal deaths per 100,000 births.

In FBiH in 2001, only one case of maternal death, which is an indicator of the poor quality of mortality statistics data and certainly not a reflection of the actual conditions.